Topics: Mohamed Salah, Liverpool, Football, Troy Deeney
Troy Deeney has made a huge claim about Mohamed Salah after he was dropped against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Liverpool snapped their four-game losing streak by beating Frankfurt in the Champions League.
They came from behind to smash the Bundesliga side 5-1 on Wednesday.
Hugo Ekitike and Cody Gakpo were among the goalscorers in Germany.
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Salah, who started the game on the bench, entered the fray in the second-half and failed to get on the score-sheet despite having a great opportunity to do so.
By his extremely high standards, Salah has struggled this season, having scored just three goals in 12 matches across all competitions.
Former Premier League forward Deeney believes it's time for Liverpool to consider moving on from Salah, who signed a new contract in April.
In his column for The Sun, Deeney wrote: "Salah’s legacy is cemented. If he never played another game for the Kop, he’s a legend, an icon, up there with how Gerrard is remembered.
"But now his selfish tendencies are coming to the forefront more than ever. He remains a goal-first sort of player, not team-first, and that could become a big problem in this new-look Liverpool set-up.
"But towards the back end of last year and rolling into this one, his performances haven’t been good enough," he added.
"From a team perspective, what I am seeing Arne Slot trying to do, he wants to build in a way where everybody has opportunities to score."
Salah has enjoyed an ultra-prolific spell at Liverpool.
He scored 34 goals in all competitions last season, including an impressive 29 league goals.
But, as mentioned, the 33-year-old has only scored three goals this time around.
Despite his form, Arne Slot isn't worried and expects his star man to return to his usual goal-scoring ways.
When asked about Salah's form in Friday's pre-match press conference, Slot replied: "The main thing is that he always has scored goals for Liverpool.
"The last thing I worry about is Mo scoring goals again. He's done that his entire life and I expect him to do that again in the upcoming weeks and months."
Salah will be hoping for a spot from the start when Liverpool resume their league campaign against Brentford on Saturday.
